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Hi everybody,

so I have finally started with destroying my old bathroom and now I have found this straw wall. I was thinking to tear this down and build new stud wall or to "glue" Tile mate backer board on this straw, which would be the easiest way to do it, but would it be the best way? The black spot in the middle is moulding straw which has been attacked by water penetrating through old tiles. What would you do in my place?
 
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Muse2k8

My thoughts would be to dry the straw and paint on that mould stuff you can get (can't remember the name) then render the straw before attaching backer or another suitable board.

But then this would be new to me so seek further advice and see if anyone else has a better solution.

If the straw can safely come out you might be easier to redo with new stud wall.
 
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DHTiling

Dry the wall and kill the mould. Then dry line it. You cannot just pull that type of wall construction down.
 
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Mike

as with dave, i done one recently, it was a steel frame house built in the seventies, there was a huge cavity behind, no way of reboarding.
 
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vrytir

This wall seperate bathroom from bedroom, it is one piece block without cavity. So I should kill the mould(there will be something to buy at b&q or somewhere else) How should I dry line it?
 

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Also be careful when drilling into it if you have to - go slow and reverse the drill on the way out.
 
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White Room

As said dry wall but kill the mould before anything else and then tank the shower area...
 
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vrytir

Can I use backer board which I would stick to the straw wall. If it is good idea, what can I use to stick it to wall.
 
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Nick Dickens

If it was me, i'd probably give it a good going over with SBR, then stick some moisture resistant plasterboard over it with dry-wall https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/, That stuff's called Stramett board acorrding to my old man....how they ever got away with studding walls in it ill never know!
 
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White Room

If it was me, i'd probably give it a good going over with SBR, then stick some moisture resistant plasterboard over it with dry-wall https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/, That stuff's called Stramett board acorrding to my old man....how they ever got away with studding walls in it ill never know!

One of the bigwigs said lets go Green with straw and save the world....
 
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vrytir

One of the bigwigs said lets go Green with straw and save the world....
But why in my house:incazzato:

I am thinking to use tile mate board which I want screw and use either mortar or https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ to stick it on this straw wall. What should I use. morthar of flexible https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/? Or something better?
 
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White Room

I would get rid of the mould, a coat of dry wall https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ forced in the straw with a plastering trowel just to bind it together....when that has set use plasterboard dot and dabbed and tanked....
 

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